Liverpool’s Philippe Coutinho quick to send Everton to derby defeat

FULL TIME: Liverpool 3-1 Everton

Liverpool do the double over their Merseyside rivals! They’re deserved winners of a game which threatened to boil over once or twice, but in the end didn’t. It’s three wins out of three in the derby for Jurgen Klopp, who will be happy with his team’s performance, but worried about Sadio Mane’s fitness. And so Everton’s barren run at Anfield goes on. Still no win here since 1999.

88 min: Lukaku works a little space down the inside-right channel, but his cross into the area - populated by more blue shirts than red - floats harmlessly out to the left of goal. Frustration furrows his brow.

87 min: Mirallas turns Milner easily in the midfield, glides past a static Matip, and drifts out to the right. For a second, it looks like he’s going to score a goal not unlike Mane’s early opener, but upon reaching the right-hand side of the Liverpool D, he blasts wildly over the bar.

83 min: Wijnaldum makes good down the left and crosses low. Barkley intercepts with Alexander-Arnold and Origi in attendance. He opts to dribble across his own box, and is dispossessed by a Peter Beardsleyesque tackle from behind. Pocket picked. Origi can’t subsequently work the space to shoot, mind, but that was impressive persistence.

80 min: Can should send the ambitious Alexander-Arnold clean through on goal, but his misplaced pass allows Williams to intercept. Then Clyne goes on a romp down the right, but his decent low cross, trundling along the corridor of uncertainty, is snaffled well by Robles with Origi lurking.

77 min: Can turns into space down the right, reaches the byline and pulls a ball back for Alexander-Arnold. The pass is a little behind the marauding full back, but he digs out a shot anyway, scooping a strange effort across Robles and towards the top left. The keeper claws it out of the air, a fine save, even if the whole thing was played out in trippy slow-mo.

74 min: The free kick is cleared by Matip. And then a slightly surprising substitution by Klopp, who removes Coutinho in favour of Alexander-Arnold. Recognition that Everton have been on the front foot for a while.

72 min: Barkley is bossing the midfield right now. He sprays a pass wide right towards Holgate, whose fierce cross is deliberately top-armed by Milner, to the right of the Liverpool area. Free kick in a dangerous position. No booking, strangely. The referee is all over the shop today.

69 min: Everton come very close to halving the deficit. Holgate has a blast from distance on the right. Mignolet, having gone down early, somehow manages to claw it away from danger. Baines recycles the ball on the left, and sends in a cross which Barry somehow heads over from close range. This is far from over.

62 min: Williams faffs about in the midfield. He takes a heavy touch and chases after the ball, studs up. He clatters into Can, and that’s a booking. Can looks in real agony here, with stud marks across his knee.

Liverpool’s Emre Can looks to be in a bit of pain after a foul by Everton’s Ashley Williams. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

GOAL! Liverpool 3-1 Everton (Origi 60)

This was way too simple. Coutinho shimmies in from the left, draws Williams and slips the ball inside for Origi. The sub takes a stride towards the box and lashes a shot into the top left. Robles had charged out to the edge of the area, which was a strange decision. Everton have not defended well today.

58 min: Liverpool look a bit rattled by the Mane injury, and Everton are enjoying the lion’s share right now. Barkley Gazzas his way from left to right across the front of the Liverpool box. He slips the ball wide right to Holgate, who should find Lukaku free in the middle, six yards out. But the cross isn’t any good.

56 min: Liverpool will hope that’s not too serious, but that could be an ankle-ligament job. Mane limps off down the tunnel. Origi will come on. In the meantime, Barkley has a whack from distance; his shot balloons off a red shirt and threatens to squirm into the top right, but Mignolet is behind it and able to gather.

54 min: A worry for Liverpool here as Mane twists his ankle while challenging with the innocent Baines. He goes down and receives lengthy treatment. He tries to limp off, with a view to playing on, but falls again before he can leave the pitch. He’ll not continue.

51 min: Barkley slips over in the midfield, but earns a free kick because Can plants a boot on his arm. Like Williams earlier on, that was daft and asking for trouble, but it’s nothing more than a free kick that goes nowhere. The referee’s been a bit laissez-faire today.

49 min: But Everton are still looking shaky at the back themselves. Can dribbles in from the left and gets a shot away from the edge of the area. It’s blocked by Williams. On another day, Coutinho is slapping the rebound home from six yards, but it sticks under his feet. Everton clear.

48 min: A free kick for Everton down the left. Barkley floats it to the far post. Williams tries to guide it back across the face of goal with a telescopic leg, but the ball’s too near Mignolet, who smothers. Liverpool’s defenders are still in the dressing room, I think.